قراءة كتاب The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852
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The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852
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anything which I have heretofore attempted, and the volume does not seek to claim rank as a literary production. If, however, it will serve to contribute a moiety to the prosperity of my native city; if it will serve to add one industrious and enterprising man to the number of her citizens, I shall be satisfied that this labor has not been in vain, nor this exertion spent for naught.
BEN. CASSEDAY.
CONTENTS.
| Position of Louisville—Falls of the Ohio | 15 |
| Advent of Captain Bullitt | 16 |
| Bullitt’s Interview with the Indians | 17 |
| Campbell’s and Conally’s Patents | 21 |
| Advent of General Geo. R. Clark | 22 |
| Clark’s Expedition to Virginia | 23 |
| "Secret orders from Patrick Henry | 25 |
| "Arrival at the Falls | 28 |
| Account of a social party in 1779 | 31 |
| Account of life on the Frontier | 32 |
| The Hard Winter | 43 |
| Act for establishing the town | 44 |
| Early surveys of the town | 47 |
| Reminiscences of the Ponds | 50 |
| Advent of Colonel Geo. Slaughter | 53 |
| Incidents of the Indian Wars | 54 |
| Division of the State into Counties | 58 |
| Building of Fort Nelson | 60 |
| Battle of Blue Licks | 61 |
| Barge Navigation | 62 |
| The Boatwreckers—Colonel Plug | 67 |
| The Bargemen—Mike Fink | 71 |
| Peace declared | 81 |
| First Store in Louisville | 83 |
| Tom Paine’s book | 84 |
| First Kentucky Convention | 85 |
| Clark’s Treaty at Fort McIntosh | 86 |
| "Expedition to Vincennes | 89 |
| Mississippi Troubles | 90 |
| First newspaper in Kentucky | 97 |
| Act in relation to the Trustees—Major Quirey | 98 |
| Kentucky erected into a State | 102 |
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